Exam #3 will cover Chapters 8 and 9 of the textbook and all of the ethnography, Danger, Duty, and Disillusion: The Worldview of Los Angeles Police Officers. Most, if not all, of the exam questions will be in multiple choice format, and I will probably draw from some of your quiz questions. I will also draw from lectures as well as the film, The Ax Fight.

Terms and concepts to know (as they relate to assigned readings and lectures:

gender gender role mahu mahu third genders community band big men nation state stratified society class deviance I.O.D. sandbagging getting off the streets “to be beefed” hard charging “duce” motors

sex heterosexuality berdache the Nandi power tribe sodality egalitarian society stratified state societies caste law rites of passage “wuss” Sam Browne vox dire jacket “choking out” foot patrol

sexual dimorphism homosexuality hijra myth of moonblood authority headmen chiefdom rank society social stratification social control TA.s “pull the pin” cop bars extended family styles of policing “Tupperware police” watch car patrol

options (strategies) for police officers trying to remain on the job

Margaret Mead and early gender studies

Below is a brief outline that may help you organize your notes:

I. Sex and Gender (Chapter 8)

A. Factors Affecting Gender Roles: Kinship, Economic Resources, Ideology

B. Perspectives on Human Sexual Behavior; Sexual Attraction and Behavior

II. Political Order, Disorder, and Social Control: Who Decides? (Chapter 9)

A. Politics  

B. Power and Authority- Who has the Power? 

C. Forms of Political Organization and Leadership  

Band Societies, Tribal Societies, Chiefdom Societies, State Societies, Rank and Stratification  

D. Disorder and Social Control  

1. Informal Means of Social Control   2. Formal Means of Social Control  

E. External Relations: War and Peace  

F. Examples: The Yanomamo, the Kpelle moot

III. Sample Ethnography: Los Angeles Police Officers

A. Barker’s Methodology

B. Traditional and New Police

C. The Worldview of Police Officers

D. Hitting the Streets, Hitting their stride, Hitting the Wall, Regrouping

E. Retirement

F. Reflections of a police officer (Fred)